In this FIR Interview, co-host Shel Holtz talks to Kelly Hoey, president of the women’s professional network 85 Broads. Kelly provides an overview of the network and its use of social media. As a non-practicing lawyer, she also offers views on employee access from work to social networks. Get this…
Content summary: The Iceland volcano ash cloud means Neville can’t get to NewComm Forum; FIR Interview with Christian Gunning posted, another one coming soon; update on The New PR wiki; five minutes of "have you heard..?"; listener comments; News That Fits: social media to the fore in communicating the Iceland…
The mainstream media has been full of photos of the ash cloud from the Iceland volcano eruption that’s the cause of a complete shutdown of incoming and outgoing flights in the UK – and now nearly 20 European countries – since last Thursday. Here’s one that I think epitomizes the…
Thinking about the televised live debate last night between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg – leaders, respectively, of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats parties – I still have the same view I had after watching it last night: it was a gameshow. See what you think from…
In this FIR Interview, co-host Shel Holtz talks to Christian Gunning, director of Corporate Communications for Boingo, which provides wifi service in airports across the US. On Saturday, April 10, an email meant to be used as a test was inadvertently sent, sometimes repeatedly, to Boingo customers. The company’s social…
Change is inevitable, even for FIR. Effective with our latest episode, FIR will be a weekly podcast, produced on Mondays. The Thursday instalment is now a thing of the past. Additionally, we have made several changes to the FIR format, most resulting from the 2009 listener survey, the results of…
Content summary: FIR goes weekly from today: no more Thursday show, only Monday; other changes inspired by feedback from last year’s listener survey; take advantage of great discounts for NewComm Forum 2010 next week; The New PR wiki (where FIR show notes are published) is still down, Tony Molloy has…
Now that the Digital Economy Bill is now the Digital Economy Act – a piece of legislation that has been bitterly opposed by many – a report in today’s Guardian says that the likelihood for innocent people to be accused of illegal file downloading has greatly increased because of this…
